I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin.

Every child deserves good parents and a beautiful world full of opportunities and possibilities.

She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star!

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others.

Every library is an arsenal.